Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen #7, c. 1850s San Pacific and then can be collected

and then can be collected by opening the flap at the bottom front

stoic ceramic bull has a presence much grander than its size

This one portrays the phases of Venus as observed between 1833 and 1836 by astronomists Wilhelm Wolff Beer (Prussian) and Johann Heinrich Mädler (German)

it would certainly make a fantastic picnic basket

I'd like to think this basket has had a long

Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen #7, c. 1850s San Pacific and then can be collectedSince finding a bundle of antique seaweed pressings from the Isle of Wight a few months ago, I've been looking for more, and so was thrilled to recently find a bunch of them. They came nicely preserved inside a large piece of paper with folded edges, with "Specimens of Sea Weeds for Mrs. Bindle" hand written on the front. There is a watermark on one piece dated 1852 with the printer name A. Pirie & Sons, who were located in Aberdeen, Scotland, so I'd